Kenny Keller answers Zach's questions about helicopter training. Flight simulator experience helps with navigation. Training costs roughly $30,000 to $50,000, with financing available. You need to be 16 to solo, 17 for a private certificate, and 18 for commercial.
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He suggests $20,000 as a conservative estimate (you can often do it for less).
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Solo at 16; private certificate at 17; commercial at 18.
November 5, 2011.
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Hello everybody. Kenny with Fort Wayne Helicopters. And I wanted to make a quick video response to Zach who sent me a video and asked me a couple questions. And I think that was really cool. After all the videos that I've been making that somebody made me a video and asked me a question that that was awesome. As far as the simulation software, I haven't been on any of the stuff that's been out recently. When I was training early on for private and commercial, I did use mess around with flight simulator, not necessarily to really help with learning how to fly a helicopter, but used it to learn some different navigation things and used it to practice flying like cross country. And I did use it for some stuff. That's a great question. There's a lot of things that have come out since I was doing it. So there may be some things out there I'm not aware of that are way better than what I was using 10 years ago. And as far as on the cost, I throw the number out there at 20,000 because I want people to expect more than they may spend. You could do it for a lot less. It all depends on how often you fly. How good are you at self study? There's a lot of different factors. And as far as how do you pay? You can go by the hour. You can buy 10 hours, 20 hours. We offer discounts for the more time you buy, which is the typical thing of what most flight schools do. And as of right now, I'm actually running a special. We got some guys flying. We'd like to get a couple more. So you can go to our website@fort waynehelicopters.com and there's a rate section on there that's our posted rates, but I can do a little better than that for anybody that wants to get started right away. So 20,000 is the number I throw out there. You can definitely do it for a lot less than 20,000 if you play your cards right. I just want people to be prepared. If you get done for 12, then great. So as far as the age you have to be for the private, you got to be 16 to solo, 17 to get the private, if I remember right, 18 for the commercial. And I'm sure you guys will, if that's changed and I'm wrong, somebody will straighten me out on that. So no problem with you on age wise, you're ready to go, you can start training. So again, thanks for making me a video and there's a response to your questions. So thanks a lot. And please click the like button and or leave us some feedback. Let us know what you think. Thanks.
